The boring thread.....

[Mups]

Klondike, you say your front porch is not far from the road.  but does it have an outside porch door as well as an interior door?   What I mean is,  is it an enclosed porch?
Mine is enclosed,  and I am about the length of two cars (how long is that  ) away from the pavement.

I usually find couriers give a rough time to expect them,  but this twit won't.
The little  screwdrier kit  you mentioned earlier should be in this parcel too.

I've never seen those parcel boxes you mentioned,  but the porch usually suffices.  Your couriers reaction to you pointing out your box made me smile.  

[klondike]

No it's a tiny open porch as I said. Basically just the front door inset from the outside wall into a narrow hallway. It used to have an outside obscured door but I had that removed when I inherited the house and had it modernised throughout.  Leaving an open door would just give any miscreant cover from view to work on breaking in the main door.

This is the parcel box.

https://amzn.eu/d/cFxf1Vl

It hardly enhances the house appearance but just about everything apart from food gets delivered these days and I'm not organised enough to get a load of stuff together.

The Amazon tracking still shows it undelivered

[GrannyMac]

It's one of Hogarth's satirical warnings of the effect of gin!!

I've got a copy of the series of piccies he did called Marriage à la Mode (iirc), which I saw the originals of in the National Gallery a fair while ago. 

So many things in his pictures to look at.

I love a gin and tonic, maybe half a dozen times a year! ☺️ Like Alex, I like the lemon one, but my favourite is rhubarb.

Gin used to be known as mother's ruin, it was cheap, life was tough, addiction was rife.  That picture made it's point.

[Mups]

No it's a tiny open porch as I said. Basically just the front door inset from the outside wall into a narrow hallway. It used to have an outside obscured door but I had that removed when I inherited the house and had it modernised throughout.  Leaving an open door would just give any miscreant cover from view to work on breaking in the main door.

This is the parcel box.

https://amzn.eu/d/cFxf1Vl

It hardly enhances the house appearance but just about everything apart from food gets delivered these days and I'm not organised enough to get a load of stuff together.

The Amazon tracking still shows it undelivered

Blimey,  that parcel box is rather expensive, isn't it.   
I see what you mean about a miscreant could be covered from fiddling with the main door though, which is a bit worrying.   I just hope the dogs barking would scare them off.

Well,  guess what?    My Amazon parcel  finally arrived half hour ago. 
The young driver was very polite and apologised profusely because he apparently had to ask me what year I was born, and enter it on his phone before I could take the parcel!   
I have never heard anything like it just for a small gardening trowel and mini-rake.

[klondike]

I wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley if you were armed with those 

I've got an Evri delivery coming. I've set my delivery preference to parcel box. What's the betting he'll be late too as the end of the window is 7pm..  It almost always is a he for some reason. Don't get many women on the dinghies I suppose. There is a Royal Mail parcel lady but the normal postie brings some. Not sure why the difference. Size or service maybe.

Yesterday at 06:33:38 PM
Spoke too soon. He came while I was typing that at it's in the bin with a photo to prove  he put it in the tray at least.

Suppose I'd better get it.

[Mups]

Klondike,  what happens on the winter nights when its dark by 4 o/clock?  
How do they see the black parcel bin in the dark?     
Does it have any luminous bits on it to light up after dusk?

I had another small irritation late this afternoon too.   I popped down to Asda just for a couple of bits,  and when  I went through the self-service till,  a message came up saying my shopping would have to be checked because there was something that needed verifying.   

I had only just got shot of that courier,  and now I was getting it again!

Turned out someone had to confirm everything was alright because . . . .  wait for it . . . .  I had bought 1 packet of  Ibuprofen!!   ONE bloody packet.   Not half a dozen.    

Never had that happen before.  Seems there's a lot of funny rules and regs  out lately.
Good job I hadn't got my new mini rake on me.  I might have been arrested.   

[Dextrous63]

I've been pinned down....

[klondike]

I live on a lighted main road. Admittedly they're only led lights and about as bright as a pound shop torch gaffer taped to a pole but you can still see OK. If they can see to open the gate they'll see the box. I do have a PIR activated lamp in the porch to light up the keyhole but even Stevie Wonder would see the box in just the street lights.

I didn't know they were fussed about Ibuprofen. Paracetamol has been limited to a couple of packets for ages. They used to sell tubs of 100.

Amazon put the Lithium battery warning labels on when it's only alkaline AA and you have to put one on for returns. If it's a return via Royal  Mail they have to pick it up. I've seen AAs leak or go mouldy but never catch fire.